Iconoclast, the international production group behind Romain Gavras’ Venice competition film “Athena,” is setting a wide-ranging slate of projects with emerging filmmakers from different audiovisual fields, including Leo Berne from the artists collective Megaforce, Elias Belkeddar and Said Belktibia from the collective Kourtrajmé. The company is also producing the next projects of Harmony Korine and Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre, among others.
In a rare interview, Nicolas Lhermitte, who co-founded Iconoclast with Mourad Belkeddar and Charles-Marie Anthonioz, says the company has emerged from the pandemic with a record number of developed projects. “We took the opportunity during the pandemic to develop a lot of projects, and today we have around 30 projects in the pipeline, spanning films and series that are set up at our studios in France, the U.S. and Germany,” says Lhermitte, who adds that Iconoclast aspired to “accompany multi-disciplinary artists to venture from one field to another, films, TV series,...
In a rare interview, Nicolas Lhermitte, who co-founded Iconoclast with Mourad Belkeddar and Charles-Marie Anthonioz, says the company has emerged from the pandemic with a record number of developed projects. “We took the opportunity during the pandemic to develop a lot of projects, and today we have around 30 projects in the pipeline, spanning films and series that are set up at our studios in France, the U.S. and Germany,” says Lhermitte, who adds that Iconoclast aspired to “accompany multi-disciplinary artists to venture from one field to another, films, TV series,...
- 9/3/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
The French institution will also lend its support to feature debuts from Marie Remond, Basile Carre-Agostini and Loup Bureau. Four feature debut projects were selected at the 1st 2020 session of the Cnc’s first advance on receipts committee. Standing out among them is L'oiseau rebelle (working title) by Elias Belkeddar, well received for his short films Todo si puede (awarded in 2014 in Clermont-Ferrand) and Un jour de mariage (winner of the Canal+ title in Cannes’ Critics’ Week in 2018). Selected with this project (which at the time had a different title) in the 5th promotion of the Next Step programme of the Critics’ Week, the director has written the script of L’oiseau rebelle with Jérôme Pierrat (already his writing partner on Un jour de mariage). The story centres on Omar, a 50-something French gangster wandering the streets of Algiers, in exile, far from France. His daily life is laced...
“Pornocracy: The New Sex Multinationals” will have its world premiere on Sunday, March 12 at SXSW. The documentary about the global adult film industry hails from French feminist icon and adult film director Ovidie.
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“Pornocracy” explores how the internet has transformed the way porn is made and consumed, and how websites that feature amateur and pirated clips have damaged the porn industry. The film exposes the business of online porn distribution and production, and explores how multinational companies now dominate the global adult industry. The documentary includes interviews with pornographic stars, as well as with executives from the adult film industry.
The film is produced by Marc Berdugo, Elfriede Leca, Serge Khalfon and Jérôme Pierrat. Barbara Conforti serves as the executive producer.
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“Pornocracy” explores how the internet has transformed the way porn is made and consumed, and how websites that feature amateur and pirated clips have damaged the porn industry. The film exposes the business of online porn distribution and production, and explores how multinational companies now dominate the global adult industry. The documentary includes interviews with pornographic stars, as well as with executives from the adult film industry.
The film is produced by Marc Berdugo, Elfriede Leca, Serge Khalfon and Jérôme Pierrat. Barbara Conforti serves as the executive producer.
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- 3/8/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
SundanceTV's latest drama "The Last Panthers" travels deep into the depths of the European criminal underworld, from London to Marseille to Belgrade to Bosnia. Based on the work of French journalist Jérôme Pierrat, who has investigated organized crime in France for years, the series begins with a diamond heist orchestrated by Milan (Goran Bogdan) but eventually sparks a number of intertwined conflicts involving claims adjuster Naomi Franckom (Samantha Morton) and her boss Tom Kendle (John Hurt) as well as French detective Khalil (Tahar Rahim). But soon the crimes go beyond merely diamonds and enter greater, more precarious territory involving modern criminals who act in plain sight. The series' finale airs tonight on SundanceTV. Watch an exclusive clip above featuring John Hurt questioning who are the true barbarians. Read More: 'The Last Panthers' Exclusive Clip: See John Hurt and Samantha Morton Discuss Diamond Thieves For The First...
- 5/18/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
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